As a share of US electrical consumption, renewables have doubled in just five years:
March 2024 21.2%
March 2023 18.7%
March 2019 10.5%
Meanwhile, as I have covered here, the first new nuclear units in decades have gone online, with others in the works; the first US offshore wind farms are starting to produce; and the Bureal of Land Management has just put in place a fast-track policy for all geothermal energy projects. (Typical Biden: no announcement, no fanfare, just a quiet word to all the players in the industry.) Projections show that by the end of the year fossil fuels will be producing less than half of US electricity for the first time ever. If I weren't bound by confidentiality agreements I could give you a list of solar projects under way in North Carolina and Virginia that you literally would not believe.
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We, with only ~30 acres and 7 miles from a transfer station, have been contacted by ~5 solar companies birddogging for sites for Dominion Energy. So glad to see it!!
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